Upstream 2023 Speakers

Julia Ferraioli

Open source human

Nithya Ruff

Head, Open source program office

Allan Friedman

Senior Advisor and Strategist

Mike Milinkovich

Executive Director

Donald Fischer

CEO + Co-founder

Taylor Fairbank

Director of Growth

Luis Villa

Co-founder and general counsel

Anita Ihuman

Developer Advocate

Jose Palafox

Strategic Application Security Executive

Lucia Cerchie

Developer Advocate

Tobie Langel

Principal & Managing Partner

Lauren Hanford

VP, Product

Chris Grams

CMO

Mark Galpin

Principal Engineer

Matthew Yonkovit

Head of Open Source Strategy and Growth

Valeri Karpov

Maintainer

Seth Larson

Maintainer

Jordan Harband

Maintainer

Al Gillen

Group VP, software development and open source

Gary Gregory

Member, committer

Ceki Gulcu

Software developer

Erik Schaufuß

Expert Governance OT-Security rolling stock located at the CISO-Department of the DB Fernverkehr

Max Mehl

Open Source Strategy & Governance with the CTO of DB Systel

Brittany Istenes

OSPO Strategist

Kanish Sharma

Product and content

Amy Hays

Upstream chair

Felix Boehm

Open source maintainer

Veronica Daigle

Executive director, legislative affairs

Vijoy Pandey

Senior Vice President, Emerging Technologies and Incubation

Jason Coombs

Maintainer

Ben Adida

Executive director

David Widder

Doctoral Candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, incoming Postdoc at Cornell Tech in NYC

Catherine Stihler

CEO

Caitlin Bixby

Senior technical writer

Sofia Javed

Software engineer II

Natwan Morrison

UX designer II

Mariah Gillespie

Head of people

John Bintz

Senior staff software engineer

Bee Smith

Software engineer

Tommy Morgan

Head of software engineering

Christine Taylor

Senior software engineering manager

Chelsie Luis

Support engineering lead

Nora Hans

Senior customer success manager

Tieg Zaharia

Senior software engineer

JJ Han

Principle software engineer

Margot van den Broek

Upstream producer